Broncos appropriately fire back at Tom Brady’s Facebook Photoshop
The Denver Broncos had the perfect response for New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
In case you missed it, Brady posted a doctored image of himself riding a bronco prior to Sunday’s game.
This isn’t the first time Brady — or his social media intern — wrangled an opponent on Facebook, as he posted a similar image with a colt prior to the AFC Championship Game this past January. Of course, this time the Broncos bucked the trend, ending Brady’s 13-game winning streak with a 30-24 overtime win.
That presented the perfect opportunity for Denver’s social media staff to fire back at Brady on Facebook.
All in good fun, right? Well, considering Brady told WEEI-FM on Monday morning he’s never been so upset about a loss — this coming from a quarterback who was 18-0 before losing to the New York Giants by three in Super Bowl XLII — he probably wasn’t chuckling when he opened his Facebook feed. That’s not to say he didn’t ask for the response from the Broncos and won’t get a laugh out of it all later.
Then, former Broncos tight end Shannon Sharpe decided to get involved on Twitter.
Not bad. Except, he then got into it with a bunch of New Englanders who congratulated Sharpe on a team he no longer plays for winning an OT game at home against a Patriots team that found itself on the wrong end of a few questionable calls and was missing Julian Edelman, Rob Gronkowski, Dion Lewis, Danny Amendola, Dont’a Hightower, Jamie Collins and others, and things took a turn for the worse.
This was followed by a series of “yo momma” jokes by a Pro Football Hall of Famer aimed at his fellow Twitter trolls, which seems like the appropriate level of sophistication for the parties involved. Perhaps Sharpe was venting frustration over Gronkowski breaking his tight end record for career touchdowns.
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